Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
High production values and a fine ensemble cast: HBO knows how to do TV.

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Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
High production values and a fine ensemble cast: HBO knows how to do TV.

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So Solid Crew's Asher D plays Ricky, just released from a young offender's institution and returning home to Hackney. Though promising himself he'll go straight, Ricky hasn't bargained on his old friends and affiliations, nor indeed considered the ever growing reliance on crime within his neighbourhood. Before long he has become ensnared in an escalating cycle of violence from which there seems no escape. Ricky's adoring young brother, on the other hand, has so far avoided his idol's path, but h find out more...

Based on his autobiography, 'Cass' is an effective dramatisation of the early life and times of a ruthless thug, a young Jamaican lad brought up by an elderly white couple who found the respect he craved and consequent infamy by becoming one of the hardest men on the streets of London. find out more...

Miss Jones is a gorgeous black amazon fighting for truth, justice and the American way - she's a fed. After she burns down a Turkish opium poppy field drug lord Mommy, a leather-clad dyke running downtown gangland, wants her dead. Meanwhile Doodlebug (Huggy from Starsky) wants independence for Afros, flares, platforms et al. High-kick-karate cartoon-style camp fun. find out more...

Finally released in this country the team that gave you the Scary Movie franchise take you through life in the "hood" in Wayans' brothers style….Very, very silly, as you might expect, but under the right consumptive influence it'll probably do the biz. find out more...

Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá, a former drug-dealer, turns social revolutionary in one of Rio de Janeiro's most feared slums. Through music, the rhythms of the street and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent life offered by the drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. But even as liberation looms trage find out more...

Pam Grier displays the charms that made her a 70s icon of the blaxploitation movie. When Foxy Brown's undercover drug squad boyfriend is murdered after her bad-ass brother reveals his identity, she poses as a hooker to take revenge on The Man. Cue bucketloads of gratuitous sex and violence. Brilliant (say some)! find out more...

Lucky grows up in a South African township in the post-apartheid era and is caught between the desire to go university and the lure of easy money from violent crime.
A decade on an we see him as a struggling taxi-driver before his transformation into a businessman who uses violence to reclaim inner-city Joburg tenement blocks from the drug-dealers and hookers who inhabit them and from the rich white slum landlords who own them. Thus the ambitious gangster realises an aim of the revolution find out more...

Marcus, once an orphaned street kid, always knew he was going to be a rapper. However, when his mother is murdered, his life begins to spiral out of control. It's only a matter of time before he's hustlin' and selling drugs to pay the rent. Only his music keeps him alive, as he madly scribbles the lyrics that fly around his troubled mind. Only when another tragedy strikes does Marcus begin to change his life. 'Fiddy' makes his motion picture debut in Get Rich Or Die Tryin'!, by Oscar-nominated d find out more...